Bubp worked as a lawyer in Adams County, Ohio and served as probate and juvenile judge for a year.
Beginning in March 1999, Bubp served as pro bono legal counsel for and was a founding member of Adams County for the Ten Commandments, a group formed to oppose the removal of Ten Commandments monuments following a legal challenge from the ACLU.
[1] Bubp was originally elected to the Ohio House of Representatives in 2004 succeeding Tom Niehaus, and was subsequently reelected in 2006, 2008, 2010.
In 2011, Bubp introduced a bill that would clarify the difference between civil and criminal penalties associated with livestock owners' failure to keep their animals from running at large.
Reintroducing a measure from the 128th General Assembly, Bubp, along with Terry Johnson sponsored legislation that would allow concealed carry licensees to take their weapons into establishments that serve alcohol so long as they do not consume alcohol and would remove storage mandates for keeping firearms in vehicles.
"[6] Bubp told The Cincinnati Enquirer that he never mentioned Murtha by name when talking to Schmidt and would never call another U.S. Marine a coward.
"[7] In discussing the incident, Rush Limbaugh[8] and Tucker Carlson[9] both claimed that Bubp was in Iraq when he spoke to Schmidt in 2005.
[12] On July 29, 2014, a letter was received by the Adams County Common Pleas Court raising issues relating to Bubp's handling of the probate estate of Hubert C. Wescott in 2009 to 2010.